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While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who ...

Oracle has released an upgrade to its open-source database MySQL, with the purpose of making it work better with Oracle’s database technologies and NoSQL databases. MySQL 5.7 continues a convergence ...

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Cassandra. “We’re in constant dialogue with our ...

John Engates is the CTO of Rackspace Hosting and an evangelist for the open cloud. Open source data has a split personality. There’s the NoSQL zealot who likes to fire off tirades against the ...

Find out the differences between MySQL, an SQL database, and MongoDB, a NoSQL database. SQL or NoSQL? MySQL vs MongoDB? Which database is better? Which one should you use? This video from Academind ...

Speculation has been running rampant that Oracle may introduce its own NoSQL database at the OpenWorld conference, to be held next week in San Francisco. While Oracle thus far has been quiet about the ...

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL Cluster 7.2 as a GPL download, and claims to have achieved a benchmark of 1 billion queries per minute and 110 million updates per minute on an ...